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Patented Peb. 22, Y1887.

UNITED VSTATES PATENT OFFICE;

PARLEY A. DAILEY, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

FIGU'RED FABRIC.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N o. 358,146, dated February 22. 1887.

I Application filed August 6, 1886. Serial No. 210,184. (No model.)

VTo all whom t may concern:

by my improvement the cost of manufacture is comparatively slight.

In the drawings I have illustrated by sectional views, on a magnified scale, the successive steps of my improvement, in which- Figure l shows the rst stage of the fabric; Fig. 2, the second stage of the fabric, and Fig. 3 is a section of the complete fabric.

The foundation of the fabric may be woven, felted,or knitted, anditis preferably of woolen or other material having sufficient felt-ing properties for the operations hereinafter described. Upon this foundation A', Fig. 1, I apply a sheet of wool or other fibrous material, as at B, and

cause the two to adhere in any desired manner-such, for instance, as bya preliminary felting or fulling operation, or by hardening the two together. This sheet Bis of a different color to the foundation fabric, so that the iigure,when produced by this layer B of iibrous material, may contrast in color with the background.` The fabric is now passed through .between embossing-rollers, which press down and indent the design, pattern, or figure, and this embossing should be in the presence of sufficient heat to render the embossing permanent. The embossed fabric is represented in the section, Fig. 2.. The fabric is now passed through a shearing-machine, and the portion of the layerB which is not indented removed, so that the color of the foundation fabric is visible. This develops the pattern, because the pattern itself 'is not sheared, having been indented. Y In this condition the goods may be pnt upon the market; but usually it is preferable to submit the sameto asteaming, fulling, or felting operation, which more firmly unites the fibrous layer forming the pattern, and renders the fabric uniformly pliable, and the fibrous materials forming the design or pattern now assume a raised condition, as indicated in Fig. 3. Vhen the gure of the pattern is produced by the foundation color, then the background is indented and the figure sheared off, and the surface color becomes the background.

Fabrics furnished in this .manner possess great beauty in consequence of the figures being of a different color from the groundwork or body, and in addition to this, when the gure is raised, the ornamental appearance is in creased because of the prominence ofthe figure. This fabric may be produced by weaving a surface fabric of a different color upon the foundation fabric,or by felting upon the foundation fabric the layer of surface fibers, the felting being done by gangs of reciprocating needles. In all cases the embossing or indenting and the shearing operations are made use of.

I am aware that velvets and plushes have been embossed,andin some instances embossed fabrics have been sheared. I therefore do not claim either operation, and ornaments have been attached by sewing either before or after being cut out.

It will be apparent that when figures are cut out and applied to the surface of a fabric and united thereto, as `has before been done, it is impossible to repeat the figures with absolute accuracy. With my improvement the embossing is accurate. The figures are always in the proper relative positions, and after the shearing and raisingfoperations have been performed theedges of the raised figures or designs are beveled, as illustrated in the drawings, and a fabric made according to my methkods is easily distinguished from pre-existing fabrics by these peculiarities.

I claim as my invention- 1. The method herein specified of producing figures or designs upon fabrics, consisting in applying to the foundation fabric a layer of brous material of a different color to the foundation fabric, felting the two materials together, indenting the pattern or figure by an embossing operation, and removing the portion ofthe layer thatis not indented by a shearing operation, substantially as set forth.

2. The method herein specified of producing figures or designs upon fabrics, consisting in uniting to the foundation fabric a layer of brous material of a different color from the IOC foundation fabric7 indenting the pattern or the foundation fabric, and the edges of the xo figure by an embossing operation, and reniovraised portion beveled to the surface of the ing theportion ofthe layer that is not indented foundation, substantially as set forth. Aby a shearing operation, and fnlling or felting Signed by ine this 4th day of August, 1886. 5 the fabric, substantially as set forth.

3. Thegured fabrichavingthepatternupon P' A' DAILEY' its surface composed of a layer of fibers of Witnesses: different color from the foundation-fabric, and GEO. T. PINCKNEY, the entire pattern substantially integral with VILLIAM G. MOTT. 

